Chapter 170: The Curiosity of the British
A Royal Society coat of arms with the British flag on it, a silver membership card, and a fifty-pound King's Prize, a private patronage of the British royal family, is available every year.
Ye Kai took the badge in his hand and bowed around, and the surrounding members of the society also responded with warm applause.
George III sat in a wide chair with a look of indifference. Pete stood beside the king, but he was more like the son of King Qiao San than the reluctant Qiao Si.
"Your Excellency the Marquis, you are the first Seris to come to Europa from the Far East, can you tell us about the current state of Seris? His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, why did he blockade the country? What do you think is the difference between Britain and France? Ye Kai was about to return to his seat when little William. Prime Minister Pitt asked out loud.
"Yes Marquis, tell us about Seris! You said in France that the real Seris is dead, and we have heard a lot of European descriptions of Seris, and we want to hear from a nobleman with royal blood about Seris, what is Seris like? β
Joseph, President of the Royal Society. When Lord Banks heard the Prime Minister say this, he quickly chimed in.
Everybody knows William Jr. The relationship between Prime Minister Pitt and the king is very good, and the prime minister's thoughts are basically the same as those of the king, maybe it is not the prime minister who wants to hear it, maybe the king wants to hear it.
Ye Kai, who was wearing a big red flying fish suit, coughed lightly, he handed the badge and membership card to Mrs. Polina under the stage, and then bowed slightly to George III.
"Your Majesty the King, Mr. Prime Minister, and members of the Royal Society here, I can responsibly say that the Kingdom of Seris does exist.
Confucius, Mencius and other great philosophers who were sought after by Montesquieu and other philosophers did exist!
In fact, strictly speaking, I was not the first Oriental to arrive in Europe, and there had been two groups of Oriental people before me, but they did not come to learn and communicate with me, but brought war. β
"Do you mean Attila and Sainhanbaldu? They are terrible savages, and they bring painful killings, but now we need not be afraid of them. A man in a pale gold coat and a wig even though he was sweating in the heat shouted.
"Yes! The Huns have disappeared, and the Mongols of the Golden Horde are about to be killed by the Russians, but what you don't know is that these two peoples from the East have a very close relationship with Seris!
The year of the Lord was 89 years, which was the period of the reign of the Han Dynasty of the Seris Kingdom, and General Dou Xian, the brother of the Empress Dowager, was imprisoned in the palace by the Empress Dowager for his lawlessness.
In order to atone for his sins, the empress dowager's brother asked to attack the Huns who were entrenched in the steppes in the north of the empire.
After two wars, the Huns were killed more than 30,000 nobles and elite soldiers, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to surrender, one of their princes, with the only remaining people to the west, after several generations, they came to Europe, the most famous leader, is the whip of God, the Hun King Attila!
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And the Mongols under Sain Khan also originated from the northern steppes of Seris, where the Huns once lived.
Do you know why Sain Khan's army suddenly stopped its offensive after winning the Battle of Rignitz, killing Henry II, Grand Duke of Poland and Duke of Silesia, and then capturing Pest Castle and annihilating more than 60,000 Hungarian soldiers?
That's because in the east, in Seris, the generals of the Song Dynasty killed the Mongol MΓΆngke Khan, and many Mongols withdrew to Seris to attack the Song Dynasty!
This is the reason why the Mongols did not bring more horrific killings to Europe like the Huns! β
"I still disagree with you, Your Excellency the Marquis, the reason why we Europa people were able to avoid the tragedy of being enslaved by the Mongols like the Russians was because we won decisive victories in the crucial battles of Ogmut and the defense of Krakow!"
Some people stood up and objected, in fact, Ye Kai's words were indeed sandwiched with private goods, just like Attila, he must have something to do with the Northern Huns of the Han Dynasty, but there is no direct connection, but this is a confused account in later generations, who can tell it clearly now?
"Sir, Yaroroslav of Bohemia. The reason why Stellenberg was able to win the battle of Ogmutz and Lezek II was able to hold Krakow was largely because the main force of the Mongol army was the Orthodox Christians who believed in the Rus' princes, and the real Mongols accounted for less than 20 percent!
If the real Mongol army had come to storm and the Mongols had simply chosen to continue the attack after capturing the city of Pest, it would have been difficult to predict!
And the total number of Mongols who came to Europe did not exceed 50,000, do you know how many Mongols went south to attack Seris? They put in as many as 200,000 to 300,000 men for each attack! β
No one objected at this time, because what Ye Kai said was basically the truth, if the Mongols had not been transferred back to the steppe desert for most of them after the death of Meng Gohan, if they had not used too much of the vassal army provided by the princes of Rus, the generation gap between Europe and the Mongols in weapons and tactics at that time was much greater than that of the Romans and Germanic barbarians facing the Huns.
"Not only that, but speaking of navigation, in the year 1405 of the Lord's year, the Ming Dynasty of Seris sent a huge fleet on a very great voyage!
This court envoy, Zheng He, led 240 Chinese ships with 27,400 soldiers and crews, and they reached as far as the east coast of Africa.
And Christopher. Columbus, who led only three ships and a crew of eighty-eight people, was 87 years late.
Ferdinand. Magellan was slightly better, with five ships and more than 200 sailors, but it was much later, 104 years later than Zheng He, and the size did not even reach one percent of the Ceris ocean-going fleet.
Speaking of cities, a thousand years ago, Seris had several large cities with a population of more than two million, which was larger than today's London.
It can be said that counting back a thousand to two thousand years, the whole of Europa combined, there is no comparison with Seris, and those books that praise Seris do not lie, Seris was once so powerful and rich!
And having said all this, I don't want to show off in front of all the gentlemen and His Majesty George III, but I want to ask you to guess why such a powerful and rich Seris died? β
The mouth of the words in one breath was dry, and the faces of the surrounding Englishmen were not good-looking, but Ye Kai's last question still aroused the interest of the Englishmen present.
They talked about it from one to another, but since they didn't know much about the East, no one knew.
"Your Excellency Marquis, please tell us about it!" George III, who has always looked like an ancient well, couldn't help it.
The Britain he ruled now was in the midst of a thriving period, and he was eager to know why such a powerful Seris in Ye Kai's mouth would die, which was very meaningful for a monarch.
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